Media Coverage and official announcements from Westhab, featuring organizational updates, major initiatives, and key milestones
News 12 Bronx covered Westhab’s Van Cortlandt Rapid Rehousing Center Opening. The 130-bed facility provides safe, dignified shelter and supportive services for men experiencing homelessness, with a focus on helping residents move toward permanent housing.
News 12 Westchester, Construction has begun on Westhab’s first development in Rockland County $53 million 30 West affordable housing development in Haverstraw, which will create 81 apartments—including 20 supportive units for formerly homeless residents—and Construction has begun on the $53 million 30 West affordable housing development in Haverstraw, which will create 81 apartments—including 20 supportive … Continued
Business Insider,
Westhab’s Fort Greene Family Center was featured in Business Insider, highlighting how our purpose-built, 11-story shelter is helping families experiencing homelessness regain stability. The center offers apartment-style units with private kitchens and bathrooms, along with on-site support to help parents enroll kids in school, secure transportation, and move toward permanent housing.
This article, originally published by The Journal News (lohud), highlights Westhab’s supportive housing model and its impact in Yonkers and across the Lower Hudson Valley. Developments like Summit on Hudson combine affordable apartments with on-site services to help residents move from homelessness to stability, but supportive housing faces funding and policy challenges as homelessness rises statewide.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Westhab Closes On Financing to Create 81 Affordable Homes in Haverstraw, Rockland County Haverstraw, NY – December 22, 2025 – As New York grapples with a statewide affordable housing crisis, Yonkers-based nonprofit housing developer Westhab, Inc. is partnering with the Village of Haverstraw to turn an underused municipal village parking lot into … Continued
Westhab announces the opening of the Fort Greene Family Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The 11-story, 105-unit facility provides transitional housing for some of New York’s most vulnerable families with children.
Westhab received a $200,000 grant from the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation to expand the Bright Beginnings Program, helping children and caregivers achieve stability, access services, and break homelessness cycles.
Financing closed for the construction of La Olazul, a supportive and affordable residential rental building located in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx. The development will reserve 60% of the apartments for formerly homeless residents receiving supportive services and the balance for low-income individuals and families.